{"product_id":"thank-you-uncle-sam-from-calabria-to-america-family-stories-of-emigration-paperback","title":"Thank you Uncle Sam: From Calabria to America: Family stories of emigration - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNiall Allsop\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 2008, Niall Allsop and his wife Kay have lived in a small Calabrian hilltop town, Santa Severina. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the town's square one summer he bumped into a man from New Jersey who was enjoying a vacation back in the town of his birth. Gino Sculco told him how his father had emigrated in 1920, returned to Calabria and emigrated again in 1960, the second time accompanied by one of his sons. In 1967 Gino and his wife Sina followed in their footsteps. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Niall Allsop was so intrigued by the Sculco family's story that he decided to travel to America to find out more about what motivated them and other Calabrian families who emigrated and to what extent their American Dream had become a reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Niall visited families in New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin and met and heard about people whose resolve and enterprise was as breathtaking as their stories were touching and unique. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the man who always thanked Uncle Sam when his monthly pension check arrived to the woman who emigrated alone, and from the man with three families to the man who emigrated three times, \u003cb\u003eThank you Uncle Sam\u003c\/b\u003e is packed with real-life characters to make you laugh, cry and wonder at their capacity for survival. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Some families went to America early in the twentieth century; others as recently as the 1960s. Some stories are intriguing and complex; others straightforward and predictable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Some of the people Niall met were in their, sixties, seventies or eighties; others mere youngsters in comparison. Sometimes he spent just a few hours with them; sometimes he stayed overnight or longer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sometimes he knew quite a lot about the family before he met them; usually almost nothing. Some he had already met; most were total strangers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The stories and experiences of all are both unique and commonplace-they are no more than people's subjective memories, stories and occasional skeletons, shared with a stranger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Niall Allsop travelled to America early in November 2012-just after Hurricane Sandy devasted parts of New York and New Jersey and just before the Presidential election; he also spent Thanksgiving with a Calabrian-American family in Wisconsin. Not surprisingly therefore \u003cb\u003eThank you Uncle Sam\u003c\/b\u003e is also a travelogue, the story of other people, places and cars that he encountered along the way.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51805965353248,"sku":"9781492752769","price":20.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6910afd4541f6c7fb5be82389dd8561f.webp?v=1780915823","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/thank-you-uncle-sam-from-calabria-to-america-family-stories-of-emigration-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}